Main aim

The main aim of the project is to build a portable
knowledge management environment that can be use as cultural platform:
a distributed network for creating, modeling and exchanging artistic concepts.
Such an environment would contain a variety of components, from relational
database and computer-science tools useful for many purposes, to more
sophisticated representations and methods which might be appropriate for
some particular group's needs. Moreover, this environment should support
communities of knowledge agents (human and/or computational) with tasks
such as knowledge representation, elicitation, exchange, and negotiation

General, structural characteristic

Cultural and artistic characteristic

Collaboratorium

Innovative ideas

Arena

Self-reflection

New patterns

Co-responsibility

Development of new ideas

Social model

Distributed curating

Collaboratorium: FACE permits the flexible manipulation
and visual representation of ideas, concepts and projects, and also forms
an arena for brainstorms, discussions and confrontations among its authors.

Innovative cultural ideas: FACE functions on the
exchange of concepts created by innovative and radical artists, curators
and specialists working in the avantgarde of contemporary art and cutting-edge
technology (please see attached lists of participants). FACE assumptions
lead to creating think tank and at the same time autonomic artistic space,
cultural collaboratorium as a meeting space for creating and testing new
concepts (artistic and scientific) and also new methods of cooperation
and interaction.

Arena: FACE cross the conception of archive (or frozen
database) of new media art. FACE forms an arena for brainstorms, discussions
and confrontations among authors that allows treat it as the platform
social artistic activities.

Self-reflection: Participants have at their disposition
a tool which allows self-reflection and reconstruction of their own position
in the discourse of new media art. Users choices allow to achieve individual
goals and accelerate the dynamic of exchange.

New patterns: This leads to the development of new
concepts in discovering patterns in their work which hitherto were unnoticed.

Co-responsibility: Each of the participants is a
co-author of the content of FACE and is jointly responsible for its form.

Development of new ideas: The fusion of tools for
the exploration and visualization of knowledge with an infrastructure
which can exchange information between participates, enables the development
of new ideas in the arts.

Agent Negotiation and Collaboration: FACE users are
human agents who interact with the knowledge environment and that situation
creates new models of negotiation and collaboration.